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Action for Autism |
Add: T-370, Chiragh Dilli
3rd Floor
New Delhi - 110017
Delhi
Tel: 91-11-6416469 , 11-6416470
Email: autism@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.autism-india.org
Contact: Merry Barua
Purpose: Disability, Health
Aim/Objective/Mission: AFA is a national, charitable organisation
providing support and services to persons with autism
and those who work with them in South Asia. Its activities
include providing assessments, counselling, information
distribution and referral, home-based management programs,
and networking between parents. AFA operates a library,
publishes a journal, The Autism Network, conducts workshops
and lectures for parents, professionals, and teachers
on management techniques, and works to raise awareness
of the disorder among these groups as well as the general
public. AFA also operates one of the few schools exclusively
for autistic children in South Asia, Open Door, in New
Delhi and provides one-on-one intervention. To more effectively
orchestrate services for the thousands of people with
autism in India, it has began plans for a National Centre.
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